Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-98083
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl4 kernel 6.18.50-1.5.azl4 on Azure Linux 4.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.6.158.1-1 |
| — | Security Update | 0:6.18.57-1.1.azl4 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-98083
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.0 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction use-after-free in raid stripe insertion If allocation of a RAID stripe extent fails, btrfs_insert_one_raid_extent() aborts and ends the transaction before returning -ENOMEM. btrfs_finish_one_ordered(), the production caller through btrfs_insert_raid_extent(), still owns the transaction handle. It handles the error by aborting the transaction and then reaches the common exit path, which ends the transaction again. The premature end can free the handle and drop its transaction reference. Transaction cleanup can then free the transaction before the caller's second abort accesses the handle and transaction, resulting in use-after-free. Keep the abort at the failure site, but let the caller's common exit path end the transaction once, after it has finished using both objects.
Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-98083, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).